America Quote by Chuck Close

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student…

— Henry Winkler

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

— Julie Taymor

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

— Frank Gehry

The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and…

— Ken Danby

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

— Rosie Perez

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

— Henry Rollins

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other…

— Phil Lesh

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for…

— Morgan Neville

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's…

— Caroline Kennedy

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their…

— Anna Deavere Smith